If you're a *Destiny 2* player, you've likely encountered missions, challenges, and rewards that refresh every week. As the game sits between acts, concerns about its declining player base remain, but the festive *Dawning* event continues, with Bungie introducing a community-driven challenge to make rare emblems more attainable. Players have already baked over 3 million cookies for Commander Zavala, adding a touch of warmth to the season.

Quick Links

• Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers
• Episode: Revenant Challenges
• Exotic Mission Rotation
• Raid and Dungeon Rotation
• Raid Challenges
• Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit
• Legacy Activities and Challenges
• Dares of Eternity Rotation
• Xur Details
• Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Updated December 24, 2024: Another week of fresh content is here, including Nightfalls, Crucible modes, and seasonal challenges. Let’s dive into everything players need to know for the week of December 23.

Weekly Nightfall and Modifiers
Nightfall Strike: The Inverted Spire

Advanced Modifiers:

• Champions: Barrier and Overload
• Hero Modifiers: Extra Shields, Solar, Void, and Arc.
• Galvanized: Combatants have more health and are harder to stun.
• Overcharge: Shotgun and Kinetic Weapons when the player's subclass matches an active Surge element.
• Threat: Void
• Surge: Void and Arc

Expert Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Equipment Locked: No changing equipment mid-mission.
• Randomized Banes: Combatants gain random Banes.
• Expert Modifiers: Extra Shields

Master Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Haste: Moving regenerates health; standing still damages you.
• Master Modifiers: Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.

Grandmaster Modifiers:

• All previous modifiers.
• Chaff: Radar disabled.
• Grandmaster Modifiers: Extinguish, Limited Revives, Join In Progress Disabled, Contest, Locked Loadout, Extra Champions, and Extra Shields.

Nightfall Weapon: Rake Angle (Glaive)

Episode: Revenant Challenges

Week 12:

• Narrowing The Odds: Craft 5 tonics that increase the probability of obtaining specific weapons.
• Moon Activities: Complete bounties, patrols, public events, and Lost Sectors on the Moon.
• Popping Off: Break 150 combatant shields with matching damage in Vanguard or Gambit playlists.
• Instrumented Performance: Deal 150 final blows with Special ammo in Gambit, Crucible, or Vanguard Ops. Bonus for Shotgun or Grenade Launcher kills.
• Momentum Crash: Defeat 50 Guardians in Momentum Control. Bonus for Zone Advantage.

Exotic Mission Rotation

Bungie reintroduced exotic missions for players to chase new rewards, gear, and craftable weapons. Each week brings something fresh:

Featured Exotic Mission: Presage (Dead Man's Tale Exotic Scout Rifle)

Raid and Dungeon Rotation

Introduced in Season 17, Raids and Dungeons rotate weekly with updated rewards. Every week features two Raids and two Dungeons:

• Featured Raid: Vault of Glass and Crota's End
• Featured Dungeon: Grasp of Avarice and Warlord's Ruin

Raid Challenges

• Salvation's Edge: At Capacity
• Deep Stone Crypt: Of All Trades
• Vow of the Disciple: Swift Destruction
• Vault of Glass: Strangers In Time, Ensemble's Refrain, The Only Oracle for You, Out Of Its Way, Wait For It...
• King's Fall: Under Construction
• Root of Nightmares: All Hands
• Garden of Salvation: Zero to One Hundred
• Last Wish: Keep Out

Ritual Activities: Crucible and Gambit

Earn additional rewards through ritual activities like Vanguard Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit.

Legacy Activities and Challenges

Europa

• Exo Challenge: Simulation: Agility
• Eclipsed Zone: Asterion Abyss
• Empire Hunt: Phylaks, The Warrior

Neomuna

• Incursion Zone: Ahimsa Park
• Campaign Mission: First Contact
• Partition: Ordnance

Throne World

• Weekly Story Mission: The Last Chance
• Altars of Reflection: Solve puzzles and battle enemies in marked locations.

The Moon

• Trove Guardian: Anchor of Light
• Wandering Nightmare: Nightmare of Horkis, Fear of Mithrax (Anchor of Light)
• Campaign: A Mysterious Disturbance

Nightmare Rotation:

• Phogoth (Fear)
• Taniks (Isolation)
• Ghaul (Rage)

Dreaming City

• The Dreaming City Curse Level: Rising - The Oracle Engine mission
• Petra Venj Location: Divalian Mists
• The Blind Well: Hive enemies - Plague: Cragur
• Ascendant Challenge: Cimmerian Garrison (Chamber of Starlight)

Dares of Eternity Rotation

• Round 1: Taken
• Round 2: Cabal
• Final Round: Zydron

Xur Details

Xur, the exotic merchant, visits every weekend until reset. Here's his inventory for December 20:

• Astrocyte Verse (Warlock helmet)
• The Sixth Coyote (Hunter chest armor)
• An Insurmountable Skullfort (Titan helmet)
• Arbalest (Linear Fusion Rifle)
• Riskrunner (Submachine Gun)
• The Prospector (Heavy Grenade Launcher)
• Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon)
• Borealis Catalyst
• Jade Rabbit Catalyst
• The Xurfboard (Skimmer Board Vehicle)
• Essentialism/Stoicism/Solipsism OR Exotic Cipher
• Exotic Engram
• Ascendant Shard
• Glimmer
• Enhancement Core
• Raid Banner
• Strange Gift (Random item for 1 Strange Coin)
• Enigma's Draw (Kinetic Sidearm)
• Dire Promise (Kinetic Hand Cannon)
• Hollow Words (Energy Fusion Rifle)
• Death Adder (Energy Submachine Gun)
• Seventh Seraph SAW (Heavy Machine Gun)
• Semiotician (Heavy Rocket Launcher)
• Crown-Splitter/Quickfang/Eternity's Edge (Heavy Sword)
• Strange Weapon Engram
• Sovereign Armor Set

Check back every Friday for updates on Xur’s inventory.

Trials of Osiris Map and Weekly Adept Weapon

Saint-14 offers high-end PvP rewards for flawless performances.

Trials of Osiris for December 20:

• Map: Endless Vale
• Weapon: Yesterday's Question (Adept Arc Hand Cannon)